Title page for A Treatise of the Great Antidote of Van Helmont, Paracelsus, and Croillius

Title page for A Treatise of the Great Antidote of Van Helmont, Paracelsus, and Croillius

This title page is from a pamphlet published in 1671 that describes how to create an elixir that promises long life and claims to have a "restoring nature even at the point of death...effectively removing away the seeds of all diseases."

J. H., a lover of truth

A treatise of the great antidote of Van Helmont, Paracelsus, and Crollius; by them called the Elixir proprietatis: known by all physitians to be the greatest cordial and only medicine in the world for long and sound life: restoring nature even at the point of death, and effectually taking away the seeds of all diseases. And an examination of authors concerning its true preparation: as also, a ready way to volatise salt of tartar, by which this elixir is truly prepared.

London: Anno Domini

1671

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